Hashimoto's & Fibromyalgia connection, etc. Revisited

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Hi everyone,

You might remember me as the one with Hashimoto's who

stopped taking her Armour on Dec. 25th and wrote in

with questions. I pasted one of my older posts in this

email for reference. Even though my thyroid isn't dead

yet and I was hoping to go HYPERthyroid and get RAI,

some of you said you believed I would go HYPOthyroid.

I'm afraid you could be right... Can I get more

thoughts and advice?

My basal temps have been really weird, but showing an

overall decreasing pattern (I chart them on a graph).

As the past few weeks have gone by, my lower back

(fibromyalgia) continues to hurt badly, I become

increasingly tired, kind of depressed, cold hands and

feet, water retention, and have constipation. At first

when I stopped the Armour, my moods were better, my

energy level seemed the same, and I actually felt

somewhat HYPER at times. As Topper mentioned to me,

maybe by body was using up its stored T4.

Here is where I'm confused though...my temps last week

were hanging around 98.1 and then suddenly on Friday

Jan 12th, it dove to 97.2. That night, I became really

sick and had a lot of vomitting (mainly water) and

diarrhea. The next morning, I still felt kind of sick

- mainly tired though, and I was no longer throwing up

or going to the bathroom. My temp that morning shot up

to 98.3 (not high enough that it's a fever, but high

for me lately). SO, did I have a flu bug or what? Is

my thyroid trying to work???Topper, did you ever have

this experience as you started going HYPO?

Yesterday, my basal temp was 98.1 and this morning it

was 97.9. I took my temp this evening out of

curiosity, and it's only 97.7. I feel tired, achy, and

nauseous.

The main reason I stopped taking the Armour was

because it really felt like it wasn't helping me. I'm

wondering if it was actually helping me a little bit.

I don't see my doc until Feb 6th and I don't know what

to do. I think I want to try a different thyroid med.

I wish I could look into the future and know what my

thyroid will do...I hate this Hashis - I wish my

thyroid would just die. Maybe it is...how do I know

for sure!!!????

Does anyone have any thoughts or advice? Please

help!!!

Thank you!

> Re: Hashimoto's

> & Fibromyalgia

> connection? etc.

>

> >

> > Thanks for your response. I didn't give enough

> info to

> > you...let me tell you more and give you my labs. I

> was

> > diagnosed in the summer of 2004 with hashimoto's

> and

> > was really hyper. The docs wanted to do RAI, but

> at

> > the time, I wanted to know my other options. So I

> jusr

> > didn't get any treatment, and then by mid 2005, my

> > labs showed " normal " - I was no longer hyper but

> > didn't feel well. I couldn't find a doc to help me

> in

> > any way - meds or RAI.

> >

> > Finally, I found a doc that looked at my symptoms,

> not

> > just my labs. He prescribed me Cortef for adrenal

> > fatigue, and I've been taking it since January

> > 2006...that has helped me so much - more than

> > anything. And then in February, he wanted to see

> how

> > I'd feel on Armour (thinking it might give me more

> > energy on top of what the Cortef did for me). I

> > started at 30mg and worked my way up to 120mg and

> felt

> > nothing from it. As of this month, I had worked my

> way

> > down to 60mg and still felt no difference. Here

> are my

> > labs from 12/12/06 (on 60mg of Armour):

> >

> > TSH: <.004

> > Free T3: 354 (normal = 230-420)

> > Free T4: 1.20 (normal = .76-1.79)

> >

> > I never felt the same from day to day - would go

> from

> > tired and having some energy, kind of in a fog,

> > somedays I'd have tremors and go between hot and

> cold.

> > So I've decided I want rid of my thyroid...if my

> > thyroid goes hyper on its own, then I can have the

> > " appropriate " bloodwork and get RAI...go hypo and

> get

> > treatment for that - no longer having to deal with

> the

> > fluctuations.

> >

> > Since I stopped the Armour on 12/25, I have lower

> back

> > pain, but that's really my only complaint. I'm

> just

> > not sure if it's related or not?

> >

> > Currently, my heart rate is about 87 beats per

> minute.

> > My basal temp is about 98.0. Sometimes I feel like

> I

> > actually might have a little more energy since I

> > stopped the Armour. I'm tracking my temps, pulse,

> and

> > weight every day to get a feel for what my thyroid

> is

> > doing.

> >

> > Any more thoughts?

> >

> > Thanks so much!!

> >

> >

>

>

>

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